The ‘moderate’ Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas recently provided yet another reason to distrust the PA. The PA has recently “built and named a public hall after [Hajj Amin] Al-Husseini.” Not only that, but Abbas reportedly was the one who ordered this.

Watchdog Palestinian Media Watch translated a report from the Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida which reads (emphasis on original):

“Under the auspices of [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday, Sunday, [Feb. 15, 2026,] Jericho and Jordan Valley District Governor Hussein Hamayel and Jericho Mayor Abd Al-Karim Sidr laid the cornerstone for the Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini Multi-Purpose Hall (i.e., named after Nazi ally and Hitler associate)… District Governor Hamayel emphasized that the laying of the cornerstone was done out of loyalty to the great figures of our people, and according to direct instructions from President [Abbas] regarding the need to commemorate the memory of the leaders and fighters… Jericho Mayor [Sidr] emphasized that the project is intended to commemorate the role of Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini in the Palestinian Revolt…”

To those who know history, this is nothing short of glorifying terrorism and Nazi-collaborators.

Hajj Amin al-Husseini was a member of a prominent Arab clan and the leader of the Palestinian National Movement pre-1948. He instigated riots against Jews in Jerusalem during Passover of 1920, which resulted in mass looting, rapes, six Jews murdered and two hundred Jews injured (p. 28).

A court inquiry into the violence found:

“the Jews were the victims of a peculiarly brutal and cowardly attack, the majority of the casualties being old men, women and children.” (pp. 28-29)

On April 11, 1921, British High commissioner Herbert Samuel met with al-Husseini and made him the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, hoping it would pacify him to the extent “that the influences of his family and himself would be devoted to tranquillity” (p. 29). By making Husseini the Grand Mufti, Samuel had........

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